More Anti-Global Warming dishonesty

Apparently science is now a democracy because we keep hearing about scientists signing up and saying they disagree with global warming.  Take for example this new piece in the wall street journal entitled No need to panic about global warming bragging about being signed by 16 scientists.  Apparently the author of this opinion piece believes that facts can be voted on.

But science is not a democracy.  We cannot simply vote on what we want to be true, instead we must have evidence to find out what is true.  If we could vote on truth I would say its high time we held a vote on whether or not cancer exists.  Unfortunately, the fact that science is about evidence rather than getting names to support you is something that politicians and the general public don't seem to understand.

The very fact that those opposing global warming are resorting to polling names of those who oppose global warming as opposed to citing studies should clue us in to the fact that they are wrong.  If the evidence showed that the earth isn't warming then the warming denialists could cite to that evidence rather than just trying to find names to support them.  As it stands the only way for the global warming denialists to argue is to use rhetorical tricks to cover up the fact that all the evidence stands against them...

Dr. Dan: misleading advertising on chiropractic

Our topic for today arises out of another bloggers criticism of a chiropractor called Dr. Dan.  Normally, Dr. Dan might have been under my radar but apparently Dr. Dan's fiancee wrote a letter threatening the author of the blog (Just Vacula) with "legal action."  Thus doing my part to participate in the Streisand Effect, I decided to take a look at Dr. Dan's website and see if there was any bad rhetoric worth criticizing.  After a quick look I found a website full of examples of misleading advertising rhetoric used on Dr. Dan's website...